Kier Starmer - what he'll be like as a PM

Saw the funniest response to this on twitter, "We all know what Bojo was doing after 6pm on Fridays during Covid. Give up, it's over" 🤣

I’m sure he’s a decent man as Sunak is . Look across the channel and across the Atlantic and see what’s going on there .

I won’t be voting Labour as unfortunately they are gripped by green ideologies
which intend to cover the countryside in Pylons and Turbines .
Vast subsidies and constrainment payments go into these products which are going to make electricity very expensive which in turn will drive business out of the country . This in turn will harm economy from which all else grows. This has happened in Germany where they have finally realised a reversal is required .

Ed Milliband has been noticeable by his absence!

Plus they are confused by biological sex which is incredibly straightforward.

I am, I really like our female Conservative MP and am voting for her (Alicia Kearns).

I wouldn’t vote for the Labour candidate for a billion pounds.

She was both

It's important for people not to get hooked on a new personality.

Why aren't people concentrating on the women people in their communities who will actually be driving change, instead of hoping for St Keir to save them.

Mei kraft

I think most of us are just excited to have someone as PM who's had a proper job before and isn't a total cunt.

🤣 I think you’re probably right.

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Margaret Thatcher was a barrister. Did you say the same about her“

Was she? I thought she was a research chemist?

I was a young child in the Thatcher years so didn’t have much of an opinion at the time, but yes I am sure I would‘ve.

He’s a barrister by trade, they are practiced [sic] manipulators and expert liars.

Margaret Thatcher was a barrister. Did you say the same about her?

he says he makes a point of finishing work at 6pm to spend time with his family. Which is a sensible, nice thing.

No, he didn't say this. He said he tries to finish at 6 pm on Fridays to have one evening a week with his family.

Grant Shitts's torrent of lies on Twatter just sums up the barrel of turds that is the Conservative Party.

I think most of us are just excited to have someone as PM who's had a proper job before and isn't a total cunt.

He’s a barrister by trade, they are practiced manipulators and expert liars.

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You think? I think we'll be at war with Russia within a few months if they get in.

Please explain why.

The absolute state of the latest Tory attempt to smear Starmer - he says he makes a point of finishing work at 6pm to spend time with his family. Which is a sensible, nice thing. The Tories try to smear him as a “part-time Prime Minister”.

Absolutely, utterly desperate.

Who is actually advising the Tories, because they have zero political instinct.

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We should NOT have to compromise women's rights! This is one area that does deal in absolutes. Men absolutely cannot be women and humans absolutely cannot change sex.

I don't have much knowledge about Starmer apart from a radio 4 deep dive programme last year. They interviewed people in his life right from school mates, to university peers, to colleagues at the CPS to PLP and union staff as well as his constituents and to be honest it was all positive and pretty benign, lots of 'unshakeable value base' kind of stuff. We don't know the influences he will be under as PM do we? They definitely change once they are in power, it would take a very special person to have the mettle to stick to their core values under the pressure. I wouldn't want that job for all the money in the world.

I do wonder what people actually want from a prime ministers and politicians? They don't want populist liars (Johnson), (socialist protestors) Corbyn, kamikaze (Truss), economy focussed but poor at governance (Sunak), right wingers (Patel, Braverman), people heavily influenced by their party (May), posh and out of touch (Cameron), machiavellian (Blair), odd (Brown), boring (Major). I guess when you are choosing one human they will never fulfil the needs of 66 million plus people and I have never seen trtust in politics and the public discourse around it at such a low point. I think the one thing we could do with as a country is a bit of stability. Let's hope Starmer can give us at least a bit of that if he is elected.

It's politics not X factor. Voting for popular "acts" is what has created this mess.

Don't vote for the person you want to go down the pub with, vote for the person you'd want to be your kids headteacher or the person who deals with your complaint at PALS or your accountant. I wouldn't have faith in Rishi Sunak to be any of those things, and the idea of Nigel Farage doing it makes me shudder.

We need to step back from the idea of politics as entertainment. I think we also need to look at compromise, particularly with women's rights/trans issues. There's a path to be forged but it's not going to happen arguing in absolutes and sniping at each other.

Far more competent than any of the Tory leadership of the last 14 years.

To be fair, and as no fan of Starmer whatsoever, Wales has no more politico-economic autocracy than a Labour-run council.

So let's stop regurgitating garbage the skip rat tories are using to try to deny their 40-year legacy of catastrophic failure in government eh?

Labour are in power in Wales, where all of those things are indeed worse. "A blueprint for a Labour Britain" according to Sir Keir.

I hope this is a typo:

”He will do everything he can to forget international alliances with America, but also with other partners”

I think an auto carrot happened 🤣

im warming to Starmer more and more. I think the campaign has been good to him.

He’s a bit of a wet fish imo. What’s wild about the Labour Party is it’s full of privately educated toffs who still privately educate THEIR kids but they want the population to actual believe they are there for working class people. They really aren’t. You want more benefits than vote labour, but everyone else will be paying more tax to fund so most working people will be worse off. Not to mention the fact that he gives zero fucks about actual women and thinks that men wanting to be women are better women ( and more important to protect) than women. It’s a firm no from me.

I hope he will be competent, dull, a good judge of character and ability in those he appoints to key roles, and resistant to corruption. But I'm assuming nothing.

I don't think many people expect miracles, I think most of us are aware of how much damage has been done by the past 14 years. I do think he's the right sort of person to begin the process of correcting it though.